You speak of my son and Damaris - was that the name?

I hated the way she spoke of him, of her own son.

' I will thank you not to speak of my son,'he said evenly.

As friends and relatives drifted in to pay their respects last week, the 37-year-old mother spoke quietly of her son.

She speaks proudly of her son, a noted local athlete.

"This is my baby," he added, speaking perhaps of the restaurant and his son both.

He was speaking of his son and daughter in the past tense as though they were already dead.

He also spoke softly of his son, Rick, who died last summer in an automobile accident.

I believe you will understand that I speak of my son.

We will speak of her son, and the unhappy portion the gods have set out before him.